Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
STATE ORPHAN ASYLUM

STATE ORPHAN ASYLUM.
| An act TO provide for the purchase of q
site and the establishment, location.
construction and maintenance of a State
orphan Asylum, and to make sn appro.
! priation therefor.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
| state of Texas:
Section L. That there shall be estab-
lished and maintained an Orphan ASYLUM
for the maintenance of INDECENT orphan
children within this state.
Sec. .. The Governor shall sppoipt
three commissioners, who shall select
the site for said asylum with reference
to accessibility by railroad, health and
fertility OF soil; competition shall be in
vited by the different towns in this state
for the location OF this asylum, and the
commissioners hereinafter provided shal,
invite such competition through such
means as they ! may deem best,
reservlng the right to reject any
or all bids for the location of the same,
who shall receive So per day for their
services and their actual and necessary
expenses incurred during their service, to
be PAID by the State Treasurer, upon the
warrant OF the Comptroller, to be issued
upon the certificate OF the chairman of
said board Of commissioners that the
duties have been performed in accordance
with the provisions of this chspter.
Sec. 3. Deeds and other instruments
conveying property for the purposes here
in mentioned shall be III the name of the
state Of Texas, for the use of the State
Orphan Asylum
Sec. +. The Governor shall appoint a
board OF managers of said ASYLUM who
shall be governed in their regulation of
the officers Of said asylum in accordance
with the laws now in existence relative to
the deaf and dumb and blind institutions.
so far as the same may beEappIiCa5le, and
shall perform the same duties and receive
the same compensation as the board of
managers of the aforesaid state institu-
tions.
Sec. 5. The said board of trustees
shall appoint superintendent of said
asylum, upon the nomination of the Gov
ernOr, whose duties of Office shall be tia
supervision of the affairs Of said ASYLUM,
keeping the accounts of the same, and it's
general management, under the direction
of the board of managers.
Sec. 6. Said board of managers shall
admit all children under the age of four
teen years, subject only to such restric-
tiOns as they may deem requisite to the
welfare and good government of said
asylum.
Sec. Z. In addition to other duties of
said superintendent, he shall keep a care
fully prepared list containing the names
and ages ef each and every child, as well
as such other data concerning the history
OF said children as the board of managers
may prescribe, said list to be recorded in
well bound book for said purpose, and
subject to the inspection Of all persons
who desire 20 examine It's contents He
shall annually deliver over to the prCper
authorities list Of all children within
the scholastic age, and see that their pro
rata of the public free school fund is set
aside to their credit, and that they are
provided with proper educational facili- /
ties. He shall promptly answer all in
quiries, by correspondence or otherwise, !
concerning the orphans under his charge, !
and promptly inform the board of mana !
gers when an opportunity is presented to |
secure good and permanent home for /
any Child under his charge.
Sec. 8. No person shall be permitted |
to remove child from said asylum ex- /
cept under such lawful rules and regula- |
lions as the board of managers may /
adopt, and in no case shall child be re- /
moved therefrom by any person other /
than the natural guardian of said child, |
or the duly qualified guardian of the per- /
son of such child, or the parent of said .
child by adoption.
Sec. 9. The superintendent OF said |
asylum shall receive such salary each year !
as may be provided by the board OF mana
gers. In no case shall such salary be
fixed at an amount exceeding $1,000 per
annum.
Sec. 10. There shall be q matron of
said asylum to be chosen by the
superintendent, with the consent of the
board of managers, whose salary
shall not exceed $40 per mouth.
Sec. II. That the sum of $500, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be ap-
out of any moneys to the
credit Of the available fund of said asy-l
lum not otherwise appropriated, in addi-
ton to the annusl income arising from the
lease Of orphan asylum lands and interest
on notes and bonds belonging to the
funds Of said asylum, for the purpose of
suitable site for said ASYLUM,
and paying the necessary expenses Incl
dent to carrying on said asylum, and for
the erection of q public building to be
known as the Orphan ASYLUM.
Approved, April f, 1887.